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On 3/13/69, | lorally ‘advised SA WILLIAM Heb7p -4 LAWRENCE as follows: :
: BAXTON - BRYANT, Executive Director, Tennessee Council on Human Relations, has recently been trying to get jobs at Wonder Bread Company for Invaders, MELVIN SMITH and JOHN CHARLES SMITH. He has also been trying to get them jobs at John T. Fisher Motor Company.
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ME 157-1067 Information Re FRANK BREWER
8 recently told by Rev. BREWER, Church of God in Christ, at FRANK BREWER, a Chair Director of Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC) Freedom Singers and who, a few months ago, was tal y h" while running with the 4¢ -4 Invaders, is actually a b7c -4 ' b7D -4 InformationRe THOMAS NELSON
‘ NELSON is not known to have a job and he-is stilla song leader for SCLC Freedom Singers.
4 ' a Rev. SAMUEL BILLY KYLES, Memphis convener of SCLC and Pastor, Monumental Baptist Church, recently commented that he was skeptical of the entire SCLC Freedom Chair movement in Memphis as the participants are too immature and easily influenced by the young militants such as Invaders.
Information Re WILLIAM DOUG RUBIN and HERMAN O'NEIL
The above duo are still field workers for SCLC and allegedly have recently been working ‘for SCLC in Mississippi. SCLC still has its food and clothing warehouse on South Florida Street. : ‘nk
Re Lane College .
As a result of recent demands by the Black Liberation Front, Lane College, Jackson, Tenn., some of the Lane students and parents, who live in Memphis, have been having strategy
meetings in Clayborn Temple, AME Church, 280 Hernando. The"
Invaders are trying to exploit this problem but do not ‘know ; how to do SO. Beal
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Re CHARLES L. CABBAGE -
Now that CHARLES L, CABBAGE, one of the founders of Invaders,is out on bond he has been loafing at Invader -Head~ quarters, 271 Vance, but has taken no apparent affirmative™™ leadership position. The current Invaders do not :fully :trust CABBAGE , ae 1 -
CACHEATUH UNDRE SMITH Pregnant — Claims ' ‘by LANCE OSHERT WILLIE WINE” WATSON |
CACHEATUH UNDRE “SMITH, secretary of Invaders, unmarried, claims she is pregnant and brags that Invader
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Chairman LANCE “SWEET WILLIE WINE" WATSON is the father of the child to be. She still has not sold the original 300 photos of WINE, of the 1000 ordered several months ago, which the Invaders were trying to sell them to raise money for WINE‘s bond. ~*
Re MARK SIGGERS With regard to MARK SIGGERS, recent Navy dischargee
who was recently at Memphis State University (MSU) claiming to be a + ia Sa for COME (Community on the Move for
Equality) aid there is a MARK SIGGERS, SR., living. °'” ~‘ on South Parkway who has a son who, a few years ago, won an Elks Oratorical Contest. Re FLOYD PEETE ee . With regard to MSU Law School student, wh b7D -4 trying to take over Black Student Associatinn (BSA) , said that PEETE recently had a job at Shelby County Penal Farm
but allegedly lost it because of some sort of unknown misconduct. Vth ee
Re ANDERSON JORDAN, JR.
On 3/19/69, [___daavisea Invader ANDERSON’ JORDAN, JR., claims to be a discharged veteran and claims he was injured in the stomach while in service. He is now living on South Lauderdale Steet. -
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[ee youl ated that MELVIN SMITH, Invader Minister-of Culture, , night shift, at Pioneer Metal Company on’
Frisco Avenue and got the job through Memphis Area ‘*roject- South. ; Re Black Egyptians, East St. Louis, Illinois With regard to the Black Egyptians, 4 from East St. Louis, Illinois, have been in Memphis 69 and have been visiting at Invader Headquarters. said they b7p -4 claim to have a relative in the Memphis has been
injured and who they are visiting. There is no indication they have had any prior contacts with Invaders,
Re MARION COLLINS
! b7D -4 = We eo 3/19/69 said he recently saw MARION "MIKEY" > rmer Black Knight, and that COLLINS said
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he is now a "lone wolf” and no longer a Black Knight (BK), and does not like BK Chairman WARREN LEWIS.
Re DAVID ACEY and BSA
DAVID ACEY, NM, MSU student and leader in BSA, MSU, has ordered some blown-up photos of MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., to put in the Student Center, MSU, as part of a memorial service planned by MSU to commemorate 4/4/69 anniversary of KING's assassination.
Re Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority to meet Memphis Weekend of 4/4-5/69
Captioned Negro sorority of which KING's widow, CORETTA KING, is a member, will hold its annual Southeastern Convention in Rivermont Inn (Holiday Inn) the weekend of 4/4-5/69. The’ leaders are:
Mrs. VELMA LOIS JONES
Mrs. MODIS (FNU), her husband teaches at Melrose High School and she is president of the Memphis Chapter. .
The Public Relations Director is Mrs. SANNY DELK, who teaches at Booker T. Washington High School;
a Mrs. (FNU) CHAMBERS of Azalia: Street, is chairman of the sourvenir unit;
a Mrs. H. C. SHELBY is the treasurer. :
They will have 100 to 2000 in attendance.
|said O.W. PICKETT, controversial Negro realtor, is running for e vacant seat in 8th Congressional District, in a special 10/25/69 election. He is. a political supporter of' former Memphis Mayor WILLIAM B. INGRAM and that the Ingram forces, headed by CARL O. BAYSINGER, WM, and retired Brigadier General W. A. DANIELSON, 4559 Stage Road, and (FNU) MARZETTE of Mammoth Insurance Company (Negro, are masterminding PICKETT's campaign.
DANIELSON spends a lot of time in PICKETT's office, giving him advice, and has been doing so for several months.
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The pertinent above information was furnished to Lt. E. H. ARKIN and Det. JERRY C. DAVIS, both of the _ sisveoe Bureau, Memphis, Tennessee PD, on 3/13 and 3/19/69.
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